Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its star, of course! Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, ...

NASA has officially confirmed the finding of its 6000th alien planet, furthering its quest to understand our galaxy and whether there could be life beyond Earth. And while the official count of ...

First-year students in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Science Exploration Program are reproducing a slice of life in their lab that might exist on the seven Earth-like planets recently discovered ...

The observatory will combine tech from NASA's most powerful space telescopes.

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule. When you purchase ...

In its penultimate episode, Alien: Earth does something that only a show set on Earth could do: take the Xenomorph outside into the sun. While the movies all take place on dimly lit spaceships or dark ...